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  1. Re:Copyright lawyer, not patent on Apple Mines App Store Submissions For Patent Ideas · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you can recommend a good, affordable patent lawyer, please let us know.

    There are no affordable patent lawyers, good or otherwise.

    The only good lawyer is a dead one. I'll see what I can dig up.

  2. Re:Ok, Enigma machine ... what else on NSA and the National Cryptologic Museum · · Score: 1

    There is also an Enigma Machine at the museum of science and industry in Chicago right next to the sub, I don't know of any other displays off the top of my head that could by at a museum solely dedicated to cryptography.

    In the UK there's Bletchley Park

  3. What's the difference 'tween the Pope and the RIAA on Why Recordings From World War I Aren't Public Domain · · Score: 3, Funny

    So does that mean that if we manage to record the words of Christ from a 2000 year old clay pot, the RIAA will come after us?

    No, the Pope will.

    What's the difference between the Pope and the RIAA?

    The Pope hasn't had a crusade since 1272

  4. Re:Get ready to Bend over America on Google and Verizon In Talks To Prioritize Traffic (Updated) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh the poor stupid fucking cunts. don't they realise that this will end up with everything being charged commercially to the consumer which will totally wipe out their busines model?

  5. Re:If it didn't happen in America, it didn't happe on Firefox May Soon Overtake IE In Europe · · Score: 1

    OK you've got us beat. Ours is only £ 113,742 which is 181 202.38 US dollars

  6. If it was invented in 1962 patents havexpired on 60-Year-Old Glass Technology Finds Its Market · · Score: 1

    If it was invented in 1962 the patents will have expired. What's to stop the Chinese just making their own "PandaGlass" or whatever?

  7. Re:If it didn't happen in America, it didn't happe on Firefox May Soon Overtake IE In Europe · · Score: 1

    Is that just personal or sum of state and personal debt. If its the latter then we can

  8. Re:There is also a correlation on Tracking the Harm Games Do · · Score: 1

    What's this? Illegal's cause global warming now? I knew it!

    Blah Blah ...coming over here and bringing their tropical climates with them ......

  9. Re:Browser market share on Firefox May Soon Overtake IE In Europe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Of course this is all irrelevant to firefox making history by overtaking IE in Europe. An analogy, many parts of the world have universal healthcare but it would still be history for the USA if it was introduced there.

  10. There is also a correlation on Tracking the Harm Games Do · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There is also a correlation with global warming, illegal immigration and the number of natural disasters in Pakistan. We should ban all games immediately.

  11. Re:Manufacturing? on Negroponte Offers OLPC Technology For India's $35 Tablet · · Score: 2, Informative

    Does India have any tech manufacturing base? No troll - sincere question.

    I know they've got keen engineering students who want that base to develop so they can work in it, but I can't think of any factories.

    Yes, Dell does smone manufacturing there.

  12. Re:Eh? on British ISPs Favour Well-Connected Customers · · Score: 1

    I live at the end of 5km of old copper, where the fastest ADSL speed seems to be about 600k. The smallest package I can get, however, is for 1mbit. It's not all that thrilling for a geek. :(

    Would I rather have no connection? Err, no. Slow is fine, relatively speaking.

    Same here. I won't complain though because up until about 8 years ago they used to say that the line was too bad for any broadband - and 500-600k is a lot better than dial-up, which ties up your phone line, costs more, etc.

  13. Re:Wait, wait... there are some morons on Facebook on Onion Story Gets Blown Out of Proportion · · Score: 1

    Finding morons on FaceBook is not news. Finding someone on FaceBook that is NOT a moron would be big news, when and if it ever happens!

    The funny thing is even people who are not normally morons seem to become so on Facebook. I know a perfectly intelligent guy, but on Facebook he's wittering on about farmville, zombies, mafia and how he has nearly 2,000 friends.

  14. Re:GPL: Intellectual Theft on KDE SC 4.7 May Use OpenGL 3 For Compositing · · Score: 1

    Bah, old hat Trolling. I read the exact same story almost 10 years ago. It was not true then and is not true now.

    Not even a nice try.

    With the bits about token ring and ext2 I think he copied a 10 year old troll...

  15. With any luck on 1-in-1,000 Chance of Asteroid Impact In ... 2182? · · Score: 1

    it'll fall on Mecca

  16. Re:I wonder.... on Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar · · Score: 0, Troll

    I wonder how happy the Not In My Backyarders are right now.

    Yes very thank you.

    Nuclear, an awesome power source is now more financial suicide than anything else.

    Woa, I never opposed nuclear power-stations. Only those in my back yard.

    I hope you all enjoy spending your nights in the dark, that is until fusion comes along and you try to kill that too.

    No, lets have them. Just so long as they aren't in my back yard

  17. Re:Nights on Nuclear Energy Now More Expensive Than Solar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That is true, however a worldwide power grid would be incrediblly expensive to install. Joining america to eurasia would require either long undersea runs or long runs through inhospitable places like sibera.

    If we keep up with global warming it might be tropical

  18. Ansolutely no defense on UK Courts Rule Nintendo DS R4 Cards Illegal · · Score: 1

    My baseball bat is a murder weapon. The fact that I can use it to play baseball is not a defense.

    There is absolutely no defense if your baseball bat is a murder weapon. Now if it were only a potential murder weapon.....

  19. Re:Twas ever thus on UK ISP TalkTalk Caught Monitoring Its Customers · · Score: 1

    "by comparing the URL that a person visits against a list of good and bad sites"

    If their aim is to just block bad sites why would they have to log anything at all? Just re-direct all traffic to bad IP's to /dev/null.

    Playing the devil's advocate, if you found that someone visited known "bad" sites then looking at other sites they visited would probably be a good way to discover other "bad" sites.

  20. Re:Some other articles on that site on How a Key Enzyme Repairs Sun-Damaged DNA · · Score: 1

    "Nine natural foods to enhance libido"
    "Eight instant benefits of meditation"
    "Five major health benefits of flax seed"
    "Five Yogic cures for respiratory ailments"

    And a partridge in a pear tree

  21. Re:the real hazard of sunscreen on How a Key Enzyme Repairs Sun-Damaged DNA · · Score: 1

    Caucasians got their white skin so they could get enough vitamin D in the places like northern europe. if you're skin gets burned you received much more sunlight then your skin was evolved to handle. that means you probably produced enough vitamin D in the first hour to last you for the rest of the day.

    also using sunscreen doesn't block all the sunlight, just reduces it to more manageable levels. more like what's found in say northern Europe.

    One of the big problems is irregular long exposures. I live in Northern Europe, and farmers, gardeners, etc. have quite a tan but no burn. If an office worker stays out of doors for a bright afternoon after staying covered all winter they will burn badly.

  22. Re:And Then What Will You Do With It? on Chatroulette To Log IP Addresses, Take Screenshots · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you really think any law enforcement agency has the resources to investigate thousands of complaints with little more than a screenshot of someone's junk and their IP address?

    Maybe if the IP address resolved to Whitehouse.gov. Don't you miss Bill Clinton?

  23. Re:Twas ever thus on UK ISP TalkTalk Caught Monitoring Its Customers · · Score: 1

    Actually in UK law the digital economy act practically requires by law that isp's are to monitor their users and notify certain bodies of any possible illegal activity. TalkTalk and BT are the only people attempting to stand up to this. I guess TalkTalk are a little more two faced than we thought.

    No they won't report it to the UK government. Only the Chinese!

  24. Isn't that... on How a Key Enzyme Repairs Sun-Damaged DNA · · Score: 1

    Researchers have long known that mammals, including humans, lack a key enzyme ... a sunscreen containing photolyase could potentially heal some of the damage from UV rays that get through.

    Isn't that how the lizzardman got started?

  25. Mod parent informative on Facing 16 Years In Prison For Videotaping Police · · Score: 1

    This is an excellent point. If they win this case a standard question on being stopped by the police should be "do you have a warrant for that wiretap?".